The Internship is an educational tool that combines educational theoretical knowledge with practice and is an attempt for the students' first contact with their future profession. As a program it was implemented for the first time in the academic year 1998-1999 and since then it has continued uninterruptedly within the framework of the relevant operational programs funded by the European Union under the coordination (since 2002) and administration of Internship Office of the University of Patras.

The Department of Mathematics included, in the academic year 2017-2018, the internship program as free choice course of the 7th or 8th semester with code AL462. The successful completion of the Internship is indicated in the Diploma Supplement.

The content of the internship concerns applied subjects practiced by public and private organizations in the entire spectrum of a mathematician's activities. This fact greatly ensures the opportunity for interns to see and understand how these organizations operate in practice and prepares them for their professional careers. In addition, the internship:

  • It complements the educational process of TM with a course of recruitment of purely practical knowledge obtained in the field and can be a supplement to the knowledge provided in other courses.

  • It contributes to the further strengthening of the good public image of TM throughout the territory, through the presence of students who, as demonstrated by the formal and informal evaluations of the training bodies, are distinguished for their high cognitive and value level.

  • It maintains at a high level the accessibility of TM to the living reality of the professional branches of the economy connected to it.

  • It creates the prospect of entering the labor market by controlling and determining the flows of trainees to specific industries that can absorb or "create" jobs.

 

Student Interns

In the event that the available places are less than the applications of the interested students, then the following apply selection criteria (GA decision: 7/25.11.2024) :

  1. Number of successfully examined courses (M) up to and including the September examination of the previous academic year (50% weighting)

  2. Grade Point Average (GPA) for the specific number of courses i.e. up to and including September of the previous academic year (50% weighting)

  3. The final ranking (Rank Rank, BK) of the candidates is based on the following algorithm: BK = [0.5 × (M/36) × 100 + 0.5 × MO × 10]. In case of a tie, the student with the highest grade point average in the courses that have been successfully examined up to and including the previous academic year takes precedence.


For the Department of Mathematics responsibility for coordinating the Internship has Assoc. Professor Mr. Sotirios Kotsiantis.





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